Send push notifications with scalable delivery, security and insights

Beams is a cross-platform push notifications API designed for developers who need to deliver critical transactional information in realtime, without complex integrations and maintenance

Try our demo for yourself:

Select the “Enable Push Notifications” button below
“Allow” Push Notifications when prompted by your browser
Personalize the “title” and “body” text in the code block to see how Beams notifications could work for your business
Select “Send Notification” or copy and paste the cURL snippet into your terminal

Or try one of our SDKs. Beams supports:

Client libraries

Official server libraries

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Features

Cross platform

Beams offers native notification support for iOS, Android and web, so you can reach your users wherever they are
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Scalable delivery

Broadcast information to unlimited subscribed devices using Device Interests, with 1 million+ messages per minute on every platform
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Security

Create a secure channel between your users and all of their push notification-enabled devices with Authenticated Users
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Insights

Optimise your notifications experience with delivery and open tracking, reporting and webhooks to catch users at the right time, every time
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Flexible delivery

Trigger push notifications automatically for every event in your app using a single function

High volume throughput and batch support
Automatic scaling as you grow
Support for edge cases
Compatible with server SDKs in PHP, Node, Java and more

Authenticated users server snippets

$beamsClient->publishToUsers(
  array("user-001", "user-002"),
  array(
    "fcm" => array(
      "notification" => array(
        "title" => "Hi!",
        "body" => "This is my first Push Notification!"
      )
    ),
    "apns" => array("aps" => array(
      "alert" => array(
        "title" => "Hi!",
        "body" => "This is my first Push Notification!"
      )
    )),
    "web" => array(
      "notification" => array(
        "title" => "Hi!",
        "body" => "This is my first Push Notification!"
      )
    )
));

$beamsClient->publishToUsers(
  array("user-001", "user-002"),
  array(
    "fcm" => array(
      "notification" => array(
        "title" => "Hi!",
        "body" => "This is my first Push Notification!"
      )
    ),
    "apns" => array("aps" => array(
      "alert" => array(
        "title" => "Hi!",
        "body" => "This is my first Push Notification!"
      )
    )),
    "web" => array(
      "notification" => array(
        "title" => "Hi!",
        "body" => "This is my first Push Notification!"
      )
    )
));

beamsClient.publishToUsers(['user-001', 'user-002'], {
  apns: {
    aps: {
      alert: 'Hello!'
    }
  },
  fcm: {
    notification: {
      title: 'Hello',
      body: 'Hello, world!'
    }
  },
  web: {
    notification: {
      title: 'Hello',
      body: 'Hello, world!'
    }
  }
});

beams_client.publish_to_users(
  user_ids=['user-001', 'user-002'],
  publish_body={
    'apns': {
      'aps': {
        'alert': 'Hello!',
      },
    },
    'fcm': {
      'notification': {
        'title': 'Hello',
        'body': 'Hello, world!',
      },
    },
    'web': {
      'notification': {
        'title': 'Hello',
        'body': 'Hello, world!',
      },
    },
  },
)

data = {
  apns: {
    aps: {
      alert: {
        title: 'Hello',
        body: 'Hello, world!'
      }
    }
  },
  fcm: {
    notification: {
      title: 'Hello',
      body: 'Hello, world!'
    }
  },
  web: {
    notification: {
      title: 'Hello',
      body: 'Hello, world!'
    }
  }
}

Pusher::PushNotifications.publish_to_users(users: ['user-001', 'user-002'], payload: data)

Easy integration

We host and manage your complete device token lifecycle

Managed device token and Interests database
Automatic retry handling

Authenticated users client snippets

val tokenProvider = BeamsTokenProvider("YOUR_BEAMS_AUTH_URL")

PushNotifications.setUserId(
    "USER_ID_GOES_HERE",
    tokenProvider,
    object : BeamsCallback<Void, PusherCallbackError> {
      override fun onFailure(error: PusherCallbackError) {
        Log.e("BeamsAuth", "Could not authenticate with Beams: ${error.message}");
      }
      override fun onSuccess(vararg values: Void) {
        Log.i("BeamsAuth", "Successfully authenticated with Pusher Beams");
      }
    }
)

val tokenProvider = BeamsTokenProvider("YOUR_BEAMS_AUTH_URL")

PushNotifications.setUserId(
    "USER_ID_GOES_HERE",
    tokenProvider,
    object : BeamsCallback<Void, PusherCallbackError> {
      override fun onFailure(error: PusherCallbackError) {
        Log.e("BeamsAuth", "Could not authenticate with Beams: ${error.message}");
      }
      override fun onSuccess(vararg values: Void) {
        Log.i("BeamsAuth", "Successfully authenticated with Pusher Beams");
      }
    }
)

let tokenProvider = BeamsTokenProvider(authURL: "YOUR_BEAMS_AUTH_URL")

self.beamsClient.setUserId("USER_ID_GOES_HERE", tokenProvider: tokenProvider, completion: { error in
  guard error == nil else {
      print(error.debugDescription)
      return
  }
  print("Successfully authenticated with Pusher Beams")
})

const tokenProvider = new PusherPushNotifications.TokenProvider({
  url: "YOUR_BEAMS_AUTH_URL"
})
PusherPushNotifications.init({
  instanceId: 'YOUR_INSTANCE_ID',
})
  .then(beamsClient => beamsClient.start())
  .then(beamsClient => beamsClient.setUserId("USER_ID_GOES_HERE", tokenProvider))
  .then(() => console.log('Successfully authenticated with Pusher Beams'))
  .catch(console.error);

“It simplifies our backend development. It is much better than dealing with iOS/Android platform specifics”

Armands Lienieks

Director of Engineering, Sage HR

"I can't imagine building any serious app without ever using Pusher. In order to build a really good offline architecture app you need Pusher."

Barima Kwarteng

CEO, Timeero

Observable health

Debug your implementation and observe notification delivery health with Debug Console and Insights

Push notifications acknowledged by devices
Push notifications opened by users
Realtime debug console

Notify users with confidence

The Beams push notification API provides transparent realtime delivery for all your apps. Reach users instantly with expert notification deliverability across devices and locations at scale.

Case study

Pain-free management ops with Timeero and Pusher Beams

Read about how Timeero's implementation of rich transactional notifications dramatically reduced customer support enquiries by serving vital realtime updates to busy field service workers

Get started for free with our sandbox plan

Including 1,000 subscribers, Alternatively take a look at our simple self-serve packages, or speak to the team about a tailored solution to your enterprise requirements.

Pusher is a member of the MessageBird team

As of November 2020, we have become part of MessageBird. With the weight of the world's largest omnichannel communications platform behind us, the Pusher team remains focused on building developer-led features at scale.

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